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There were without doubt persuasive military reasons for using the new weapon in the summer of 1945. The first day of fighting on Iwo Jima had cost more American casualties than D-day; on Okinawa, 79,000 U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded. As the U.S. readied plans to invade the main islands, Japan was deploying up to 2 million soldiers and additional millions of "auxiliaries" who were clearly prepared to defend their homeland to the death. It was easy to believe estimates that an invasion would result in as many as a million American casualties, plus many more Japanese...
...last year, Keillor wrote almost the entire show, parody songs, phony commercials and all. Now Writer Howard Mohr pitches in on the Raw Bits and the Minnesota Language Systems ads, which peddle cassettes that teach visitors to answer "You bet" for approval, and "That's different" for confusion or doubt, like real Minnesot'ns. But the wondrous, spooky monologues that carry the show are Keillor's. He works without a net. On Wednesday or Thursday he will have started to think seriously about the piece, and by Saturday, most weeks, he will have written out a fairly complete narrative...
...your child was missing," blared the full-page ad in last week's New York Times, "could you give police an accurate description?" Most parents probably could, but doubt was at the heart of the campaign by Lafayette/Circuit City, a consumer-electronics chain with headquarters in Richmond. As an identification aid against the terrible day when a youngster might disappear, the ad offered a free videotape of any child brought to a Lafayette store in the New York City area, urging parents to "bring your own videotape or [we] will sell you one at cost...
...refer to the U.N.'s troubled 40th birthday [NATION, Oct. 28], but there is no doubt that the developing nations are greatly helped by the debating forum of the organization. And if by airing their opinions these countries are helped, then so is the world. Some of the U.N.'s agencies, like the World Meteorological Organization, the Universal Postal Union and the World Health Organization, also perform valuable functions. Fielding H. Nalder Rome Powers of Science...
...desire for summit deals is hedged by considerable doubt about their feasibility. The survey of 1,020 registered voters,[*] taken Nov. 5 through Nov. 7 by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., found that while 82% of respondents believed the first summit in six years was a good idea, only 7% expected significant forward movement from the talks, and 16% forecast no progress at all. The Administration's attempts in recent weeks to dampen expectations about summit accomplishments were clearly successful. For example, 86% of those surveyed considered a mutual reduction in nuclear arms a "very important" summit goal, but only...